A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

We have brought in several Arguments to prove original sin to be a sin properly and truly so, and this was the rather to be done, because of some Papists, but especially Socinians and Arminians, with the Pelagians of old, denying it to be so. But from Scripture it is clear, that it is as true a sin, as actual, and therefore that division of sin into original and actual, is of an univocal genus into its species, both the members of that division partaking in a proper manner of the nature of sin. It being therefore the foundation of this point, and all our fabric, which in times shall be raised, being bottomed of this, we shall ex abundanti, offer two or three Arguments more, to prove that it is a sin, not in a large, or a metonymical lense, but rigidly and properly: And the first in order is,

We have brought in several Arguments to prove original sinne to be a sinne properly and truly so, and this was the rather to be done, because of some Papists, but especially Socinians and Arminians, with the Pelagians of old, denying it to be so. But from Scripture it is clear, that it is as true a sinne, as actual, and therefore that division of sinne into original and actual, is of an univocal genus into its species, both the members of that division partaking in a proper manner of the nature of sinne. It being therefore the foundation of this point, and all our fabrick, which in times shall be raised, being bottomed of this, we shall ex abundanti, offer two or three Arguments more, to prove that it is a sinne, not in a large, or a metonymical lense, but rigidly and properly: And the first in order is,

Argum 9. From the necessity of Infants in respect of a Saviour; Those Infants that die in their Infancy, and go to heaven, cannot obtain this glorious benefit, but by Christ: If therefore Christ be a Saviour to some Infants then they are lost and undone in themselves: But not for any actual sins: Therefore for original. This fully demonstrates every Infant, though but a day, but an hour old, to be truly a sinner, Why? Because even they need Christ a Saviour; if they had no sin, they needed not a Jesus; And this must necessarily be confessed, That either Infants cannot be saved, and are not to be accounted of the people ⟨p. 36⟩